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Salem, Massachusetts
Salem Ghost Tours After the Streetlights Come On
Every gabled roof and iron gate in this city keeps a receipt from 1692. Walk the same lanes after dark with a guide who knows which stories the record actually supports — and which ones Salem has never quite been able to bury.
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Why Book a Salem Ghost Tour Through Us
Salem Ghost Tours brings together Salem's top-rated ghost walks in one place, making it easy to compare routes, explore the city's most haunted locations, and book the experience that fits your night. Whether you're chasing real witch trial history, haunted taverns, or unforgettable ghost stories, you'll find the right tour here.
Licensed Local Guides, Not Scripts
Each operator on this page staffs its walks with licensed, Salem-based guides who tell the stories unscripted. You get someone who lives with this history rather than someone reciting it.
Rated 4.1 to 4.6 by Travelers
We only list Salem night tours that hold a strong traveler rating on the booking platform. Ratings and prices shown here come straight from the live listing, so you can compare all three side by side before you choose.
History & About
Salem's reputation was made in a single, terrible year. Between February 1692 and May 1693, more than 150 people across Essex County were accused of witchcraft. Nineteen were hanged on Proctor's Ledge, an eighty-year-old farmer named Giles Corey was pressed to death under stones for refusing to enter a plea, and several more died in jail awaiting trial. Bridget Bishop, executed in June 1692, was the first.
What makes walking Salem at night different from most ghost tours is that the addresses are still here. The Salem Witch Trials Memorial, dedicated in 1992 on the three-hundredth anniversary, sits beside the old burying ground. Old Town Hall, Salem Green, Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, the Gardner-Pingree House and the Old Salem Jail lot are all within a short walk of Essex Street, and all of them turn up on the guided routes listed on this page.
The three tours here approach that history from different angles. One is a family-friendly night walk through the most documented hauntings. One is an adults-only crawl through historic taverns with haunted stops in between. One is a witch-trial history walk that also takes in Hocus Pocus filming locations and Salem's lesser-known life as a port shaped by war and piracy.
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Historic haunted landmarks featured on this page
Haunted Salem
What You'll See on a Salem Ghost Tour
These are the sites that define haunted Salem. Which of them a given walk actually stops at depends on its route — each tour page lists its own published stops.
The Witch House
The only building still standing with direct ties to the 1692 trials. Judge Jonathan Corwin lived here while examining the accused, and its black gables still dominate Essex Street.
Old Burying Point Cemetery
Salem's oldest burying ground, in use since 1637. Trial magistrate John Hathorne lies here, and its iron gates open directly onto the Witch Trials Memorial next door.
Proctor's Ledge
The real execution site, confirmed by researchers only in 2016 after centuries of guesswork. A quiet memorial now marks the wooded slope beneath Gallows Hill.
Salem Witch Trials Memorial
Twenty stone benches, one for each person executed, ring a small courtyard dedicated in 1992. Their carved protests of innocence are cut off mid-sentence by the wall.
Old Town Hall
Salem's oldest surviving municipal building, opened in 1816 at Derby Square. Guides stop here after dark, when the empty market hall feels considerably less civic.
Ropes Mansion
A Georgian mansion on Essex Street with a walled garden behind it, known to most visitors as Allison's house in Hocus Pocus. The Ropes family held it for generations.
Salem Common
Eight acres of open ground used as a militia training field for centuries, now ringed by Federal-era houses. It is the darkest stretch of any route once the lamps thin out.
Historic Taverns
Rockafellas, Village Tavern and Mercy Tavern anchor the pub crawl, where bootlegger stories and tales of Salem's secret tunnels arrive with a Devil's Touch cocktail.
Choose Your Night
Best Salem Ghost Tours & Haunted Walks
Explore the best Salem ghost tours with live prices, verified traveler ratings, and three unforgettable ways to experience Salem after dark.
Top pickSalem Night Ghost Tour
Twenty years of unscripted storytelling on a 75-minute loop past Bridget Bishop's homestead, the old jail lot and Salem's oldest cemetery gates. All ages welcome.
Salem Ghost Tour & Haunted Pub Crawls
Eight haunted stops, four of them historic taverns. Bootleggers, secret tunnels and a Devil's Touch cocktail, in the company of a lantern-carrying guide. Ages 21+.
Salem Historical Witch & Ghost Tour
Our highest-rated walk. Stand where the 1692 trials actually happened, then carry on through cemeteries, former jails and a few familiar Hocus Pocus corners.
Before You Book
Salem Ghost Tours: Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on the evening you want. The Salem Historical Witch & Ghost Tour holds the highest traveler rating of the three at 4.6 and is the strongest choice for the 1692 history itself. The Salem Night Ghost Tour carries a Top pick badge on the booking platform and is the most family-friendly. The Salem Ghost Tour & Haunted Pub Crawls is the adults-only option if you'd rather have the stories with a drink in hand. All three are compared side by side on Salem Ghost Tours.
The three tours listed here hold traveler ratings between 4.1 and 4.6, with prices starting at $29 to $30 per person. What you're paying for is a licensed local guide and a route through sites you would otherwise walk past without knowing what happened there. Every tour on this page can also be cancelled free up to 24 hours beforehand, so the downside risk is small.
The Salem Night Ghost Tour is a 75-minute walk. The booking platform does not publish a fixed duration for the other two tours: the Haunted Pub Crawl runs between fifteen minutes and one hour at each of its stops depending on the day and season, and the Historical Witch & Ghost Tour lists no set length. Check the live listing for the exact running time before you book.
Both, depending which you pick. The Salem Night Ghost Tour is explicitly family friendly and welcomes all ages, and it is wheelchair accessible. The Historical Witch & Ghost Tour has no stated age restriction. The Haunted Pub Crawl is strictly 21 and over, requires valid ID to buy alcohol, and is not suitable for people with mobility impairments.
The Salem Night Ghost Tour's published route includes the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, Old Town Hall, the Essex Street Pedestrian Mall, Salem Green, Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, the Gardner-Pingree House, Lyceum Hall, the Old Salem Jail lot and the Crowninshield-Bentley House. The Historical Witch & Ghost Tour covers the Witch Trials Memorial, McIntire and Washington Square, cemeteries, former jails and Hocus Pocus filming locations. The Pub Crawl visits eight historic and haunted locations, four of which are working pubs. See what you'll see on a Salem ghost tour for the landmarks behind those routes.
These are after-dark walks, so they're at their best once the light has gone — which means earlier start times in winter and later ones in summer. October is far and away Salem's busiest month, and the Salem Night Ghost Tour notes that space is limited and advance reservations are strongly suggested. Both the Night Ghost Tour and the Pub Crawl run rain or shine.
Yes. The Salem Night Ghost Tour states directly that space is limited and advance reservations are strongly suggested, and the same is sensible for the other two in peak season. Because every tour listed on salemghoststours.com offers free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure, booking early costs you nothing and protects your date.
Salem Empties Out. The Stories Don't.
Evening slots on the best-rated walks go first, especially through October. Pick your tour and lock in a date while it's still there.
From Our Visitors
What Travelers Tell Us About Salem After Dark
A selection of the feedback we hear most often from people who booked a Salem ghost tour through this site.
★★★★★
I'd read about the trials for years and still wasn't ready for how small the distances are. You stand at the memorial, look up, and the whole thing stops being a chapter in a book. Our guide never oversold it, which somehow made it worse. In a good way.
★★★★★
Booked the pub crawl on a whim and it was the highlight of the weekend. Good mix of actual history and just having a laugh with strangers.
★★★★★
We are both in our seventies and were worried about the pace. It was fine — flat pavement, plenty of pauses, and a guide who noticed when the group was spread out and waited. We'd have paid more than we did.
★★★★☆
Two teenagers who complain about everything went quiet for an hour. That is the review. Dress warmer than you think, the harbour wind cuts through.
★★★★★
What sold me was the guide saying 'we don't actually know' about one of the stories. After a day of gift shops and plastic cauldrons, someone drawing a line between record and legend was a relief.
★★★★★
Booked at four, walking by seven. Confirmation came through straight away and the meeting point was exactly where the listing said it would be.
Tonight's Tours Are Filling Up
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before you go. Reserve now, decide later — just don't leave it until you're standing on Essex Street wondering why everything's sold out.